First Fall Colors

Fall colors on the upper Clackamas river

Took a trip up Hywy 224 today and the colors are just starting. There really wasn't much that caught my eye and I wanted to get something captured so here it is. Looking forward to better colors in the coming weeks.

Fall colors should be fantastic this year, get out and enjoy them!

Oceanside at Twilight

Oceanside Oregon

I was here and I shall return! :-)

Yellowstone in June

Bison Calves (above), Bighorn Ram (below)

Recently I had the opportunity to visit the park so I thought I'd share some. Babies abound in June and while much of the week it rained, it was still filled with some great opportunities to shoot wildlife.

I've actually been shooting nature quite a bit lately, some travel outside Oregon and lots of local stuff. Website updates to follow... please check back from time to time.

Female Coyote moving a pup to a new den in a steady rain. She moved seven pups belonging to her and another female (part of a pack). Needless to say it was easy to see she was tired a couple hours later when she was finally done. The two den sites were maybe a mile apart.

Early Spring in the Columbia River Gorge

McCord Creek (above) and Elowah Falls (right)

The snow is still visible high above but down here the colors are coming on fast.

This post is actually a bit out of order as I've been traveling some. A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of spending some time in SE Oregon shooting wildlife. I'll be sure to post some when I get through the mass of photos.

Spring is upon us

This weekend brought several new visitors to the feeder so I thought I'd try to capture the moment.



Hope you enjoy. -- Jeff --

Mt. Hood, a winter wonder

Mt. Hood as seen from Trillium Lake

I've been shooting a series on Mt. Hood for some time now. My goal is to capture the mountain in all its moods throughout the seasons. Friday turned out to be as beautiful as predicted, a perfectly clear morning near zero degrees. Snowshoeing in just before sunrise was fairly easy since all but the last 1/4 mile was on groomed trail.

The snow in this area is about 5-7ft deep, about 14" of that being fresh dry snow. So while the going was good on the groomed trail, it was moderately difficult in the untracked snow. Need a good workout? try 4.5 miles on snowshoes over mixed terrain and snowpack. Oh, and don't forget the 30 or so pounds of gear in the ol backpack ;-)

I headed out to the west side of the mountain later in the afternoon. The photo below was taken late day and at a spot I haven't been to before. It's an interesting area, I'm looking forward to exploring more.

Mt. Hood

Fire Light

Sunset at Cannon Beach

No, it really didn't look like that but sometimes it's just fun to apply a little artisic touch. I brought up the fill light a little and drastically changed the white balance to flood the scene with red. Otherwise, it's exactly as shot. In all I spent less than one minute on this photo. Less time than it took to upload it and write this!

Hope you enjoy :-)

JB